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Jaded Burnout posted:The Barbican is a particularly egregious example. If I had the money I'd live there. Not the towers, they kinda suck but I'd love one of the lowrise estates over the water with all the original furnishings. But then I tend to really like 2 out of 3 brutalist buildings I see and think that in 20 years people will regret some of the great stuff that was torn down or shuttered in by glass monoliths.    
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Bibendum posted:If I had the money I'd live there. Not the towers, they kinda suck but I'd love one of the lowrise estates over the water with all the original furnishings. Couldn’t agree more.
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Sep 13, 2018 23:18
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 Sorry for the big image, but you cats ever seen the Public Safety Building in Winnipeg?
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Sep 13, 2018 23:21
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 is this a fetish thing
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Sep 13, 2018 23:24
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It's on a little stage!
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Youth Decay posted:
It can be if you want it to.
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Sep 13, 2018 23:25
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Youth Decay posted:
Anything can be with enough effort.
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Sep 13, 2018 23:28
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shortspecialbus posted:While some of the Snowden-leaked documents imply it, and it's probably likely at least to some extent, it's never been confirmed in any sense that would allow a firm statement like that (at least that I'm aware of.) I read it in The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, which is a great book, so if you don't believe me take it up with the author I guess?
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Sep 13, 2018 23:29
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I work in a data center underground, what are these windows you speak of?
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FCKGW posted:I work in a data center underground, what are these windows you speak of? They are a transparent material that allows light from the daystar in.
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Youth Decay posted:
I guess if they added a wall both rooms would be cramped and dark. And this way nobody ever asks to use your en suite.
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A MIRACLE posted:Brutalism is my favorite, I want a whole house made of unfinished concrete I saw one like this the other day, but forgot to take any pictures. About half the house was clad in concrete with the overspill left on all the edges. You really do have to have a lot of money to think that this is a good idea and I guess that guy had the money.
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FCKGW posted:I work in a data center underground, what are these windows you speak of? I'm a Linux Sysadmin. I haven't had a window in the area I work since the year 2000.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Isn't that a telephone exchange or data centre? You didn't hear this from me, but my county's emergency-command bunker is in the local equivalent of that. Telephone switches got smaller so AT&T had an unused floor in their nuke-hardened fortress, and the basement of the downtown firehouse where the bunker was previously was too small. Also the courthouse in Robocop is the newer one in Dallas. The old one was neoclassical, then they had to expand, and built a new one in the style of the time.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Wasn't brutalist architecture meant to surrender to nature and have green stuff growing on it? Like how they built the statue of liberty with the intentio that it would turn green. I went to college in a big ol brutalist complex, it was actually quite nice and could be very pretty on sunny days and where there was some vegitation to play against the concrete. And in the understories, stalagtites started to form from dripping water, that was pretty cool. 
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Sep 14, 2018 04:37
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Yeah, all the best examples look alpine in nature. Like bedrock interspersed with foliage. It would be neat to see some built using modern concrete technology and moisture management.
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shortspecialbus posted:Nobody is questioning that the ATT building exists or not, Whoa there buddy, I've never seen it in person.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Wasn't brutalist architecture meant to surrender to nature and have green stuff growing on it? Like how they built the statue of liberty with the intentio that it would turn green. I like that. It does kinda look like it's starting to overgrow after some kind of social apocalypse. The AT&T building's vents remind me of a bunch of RJ45 sockets, undoubtedly by design, considering.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I like that. It does kinda look like it's starting to overgrow after some kind of social apocalypse. ah, so you've been to London
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If you want non-crappy construction, Next21 is fascinating: http://www.archilibra.com/thesis/case_studies/next21/next21.htm https://www.briqs.org/next21-japan-adaptation-key-example-to-sustainable-energy-implementation/ http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/ARCHpdfs/NEXT21.pdf It's proof-of-concept apartment block built by Osaka Gas with a whole raft of interesting features. One major feature is that the structure of the building and the layouts of individual apartments are quite separate, allowing for apartments to be drastically altered to suit changing circumstances, for example wet areas can be moved around with relative ease. Another feature is that the overflowing greenery makes Next21 significantly cooler than surrounding buildings in summer, as well as providing much-needed habitat for local bird life.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:You didn't hear this from me, but my county's emergency-command bunker is in the local equivalent of that. Telephone switches got smaller so AT&T had an unused floor in their nuke-hardened fortress, and the basement of the downtown firehouse where the bunker was previously was too small. It's actually OCP headquarters that is the Dallas city hall, with the top digitally extended into a skyscraper. The actual City Hall is only 7 stories or so.  In Robocop:  The Dallas County Courthouse is still neoclassical, columns and all, a few blocks over. edit: also, local landmark Reunion Tower, which might count as Brutalist, was featured in PBS' The Lathe Of Heaven, not to mention the opening credits of (of course) Dallas, and shows up in the background of some scenes of Robocop, even though it's supposed to be Detroit.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_Tower#In_the_media Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Don't pee on the floor, or else.
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I like how you can see the spot where everyone keeps touching the blade to see if it is sharp or not.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Wasn't brutalist architecture meant to surrender to nature and have green stuff growing on it? Like how they built the statue of liberty with the intentio that it would turn green. The City Courthouse in Buffalo:  Story goes that it had green stuff growing on it, but it was causing damage to the building and removed.
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This hand rail.
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I like the blocked-in witch windows on the side of the staircase.
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kid sinister posted:This hand rail. "Lets see those drat skaters grind this!" 
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Zil posted:"Lets see those drat skaters grind this!" It would be great for points on a Tony Hawk game.
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Guy Axlerod posted:The City Courthouse in Buffalo: Megacity 1 Hall of justice looking austere.
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Guy Axlerod posted:The City Courthouse in Buffalo: I like this. Like it a lot.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Megacity 1 Hall of justice looking austere. I was thinking more City 17.
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You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers.
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InediblePenguin posted:Boston City Hall > generic neoclassical Victorian boring bullshit in every other town in the northeast which in turn > the "we're a traditional new england town, demand white clapboard EVERYWHERE  " cancer spreading in smaller townsrest of the block is 3-4 story brick or granite from an early XXth Italian population? nope, new construction has to 'fit in' by looking nothing like it while halving the density!
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Mandoric posted:which in turn > the "we're a traditional new england town, demand white clapboard EVERYWHERE agreed; the only good thing about that poo poo is that it means the Dollar Generals have to put up something other than the horrible yellow sheet metal cubes they build in the south
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The one nice thing about the multi roofed development monsters where I currently live is that they look AWESOME painted in bright, garish key west colors. And the hoa cant stop us
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From what I’ve heard, pretty much anytime an HOA loses everybody wins.
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Icon Of Sin posted:From what I’ve heard, pretty much anytime an HOA loses everybody wins. That's because you mostly hear about when HOAs try to do stupid and terrible things. When they stay modest and stick to mundane aspects of neighborhood upkeep, no one cares so much.
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